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Cayley Contest: (Grade 10)
Cayley Contest: (Grade 10)
Cayley Contest
(Grade 10)
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
(in North America and South America)
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
(outside of North America and South America)
Do not discuss the problems or solutions from this contest online for the next 48 hours.
The name, grade, school and location, and score range of some top-scoring students will be
published on our website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some top-scoring students may be shared with other mathematical organizations
for other recognition opportunities.
Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
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4. Which of the following numbers is less than 20 ?
1 1 1
(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 0.5 (D) 0.055 (E) 10
6. Matilda counted the birds that visited her bird feeder Birds at Matilda’s Bird Feeder
yesterday. She summarized the data in the bar graph 10
shown. The percentage of birds that were goldfinches is 8
Number
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(A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 30% 4
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(D) 45% (E) 60% 0
Goldfinch Sparrow Grackle
Type of Bird
7. The average of the two positive integers m and n is 5. What is the largest possible
value for n?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 13
8. Roman wins a contest with a prize of $200. He gives 30% of the prize to Jackie.
He then splits 15% of what remains equally between Dale and Natalia. How much
money does Roman give Dale?
(A) $10.50 (B) $15.00 (C) $4.50 (D) $25.50 (E) $59.50
9. Shaded and unshaded squares are arranged in rows so
that:
• the first row consists of one unshaded square,
• each row begins with an unshaded square,
• the squares in each row alternate between unshaded
and shaded, and
• each row after the first has two more squares than
the previous row.
The first 4 rows are shown. The number of shaded
squares in the 2020th row is
(A) 2022 (B) 2021 (C) 2020
(D) 2019 (E) 2018
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11. The sum of the first 9 positive integers is 45; in other words,
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45
What is the sum of the first 9 positive multiples of 5? In other words, what is the
value of 5 + 10 + 15 + · · · + 40 + 45?
(A) 225 (B) 250 (C) 180 (D) 150 (E) 450
12. The volume of a rectangular prism is 21. Its length, width and height are all different
positive integers. The sum of its length, width and height is
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 9 (E) 17
14. Juliana chooses three different numbers from the set {−6, −4, −2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 7} and
multiplies them together to obtain the integer n. What is the greatest possible value
of n?
(A) 168 (B) 0 (C) 15 (D) 105 (E) 210
15. A bag contains only green, yellow and red marbles. The ratio of green marbles to
yellow marbles to red marbles in the bag is 3 : 4 : 2. If 63 of the marbles in the bag
are not red, the number of red marbles in the bag is
(A) 14 (B) 18 (C) 27 (D) 36 (E) 81
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17. Carley made treat bags. Each bag contained exactly 1 chocolate, 1 mint, and 1
caramel. The chocolates came in boxes of 50. The mints came in boxes of 40. The
caramels came in boxes of 25. Carley made no incomplete treat bags and there were
no unused chocolates, mints or caramels. What is the minimum total number of
boxes that Carley could have bought?
(A) 19 (B) 17 (C) 44 (D) 25 (E) 9
18. Nate is driving to see his grandmother. If he drives at a constant speed of 40 km/h,
he will arrive 1 hour late. If he drives at a constant speed of 60 km/h, he will arrive
1 hour early. At what constant speed should he drive to arrive just in time?
(A) 56 km/h (B) 80 km/h (C) 54 km/h (D) 48 km/h (E) 58 km/h
19. A multiple choice test has 10 questions on it. Each question answered correctly
is worth 5 points, each unanswered question is worth 1 point, and each question
answered incorrectly is worth 0 points. How many of the integers between 30 and 50,
inclusive, are not possible total scores?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 5
20. For how many pairs (m, n) with m and n integers satisfying 1 ≤ m ≤ 100 and
101 ≤ n ≤ 205 is 3m + 7n divisible by 10?
(A) 2600 (B) 2626 (C) 2601 (D) 2650 (E) 2625
• when reading from left to right, there is at least one 1 before the first 2, at least
one 2 before the first 3, and at least one 3 before the 4, and
• no digit 2 can be next to another 2.
(For example, the integer 121 321 234 satisfies these properties.) In total, how many
such nine-digit positive integers can Ricardo make?
(A) 278 (B) 260 (C) 254 (D) 272 (E) 266
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25. How many positive integers n ≤ 20 000 have the properties that 2n has 64 positive
divisors including 1 and 2n, and 5n has 60 positive divisors including 1 and 5n?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 6
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